Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy Susan Spencer-Wendel , Bret Witter(2013)

Discover the story that is touching the world . . . and share it with someone you love.In the spirit of The Last Lecture and Tuesdays with Morrie, a powerfully emotional, inspirational, and irrepressibly joyous look at the things that matter most and a celebration of life in the face of death.In June 2011, Susan Spencer-Wendel learned she had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)-Lou Gehrig's disease, an irreversible condition that systematically destroys the nerves that power the muscles. While Susan cannot stop the rapid decline of her body and her inevitable death, she refuses to give up on life. A woman of immense strength and indomitable spirit, the forty-five-year-old mother of three has made every day count.After her diagnosis, Susan began taking special trips: to the Yukon, to see the Northern Lights with her best friend; to Budapest, where she and her husband spent the first two years of their marriage; to Northern California, to meet her birth mother; to Cyprus, the home countr